Abnormal Behavior
It is considered to be behavior that is atypical, maladaptive, or socially unacceptable, or that produces emotional discomfort.
What is abnormal behavior?
It is any of a number of disorders that produce pervasive feelings of anxiety
What is an anxiety disorder?
It is the perspective that anxiety disorders are a result of internal conflicts, particularly those involving sexual or aggressive impulses.
What is the Psychoanalytic Perspective?
Any nonbiological, noninvasive psychological technique or procedure designed to improve a person’s adjustment to life
What is psychotherapy?
Surgical procedure that severs the nerve tracts connecting the prefrontal cortex to lower brain areas that mediate emotional responses
What is a lobotomy?
It is the widely accepted system for classifying behavioral disorders and is published by the American Psychiatric Association.
What is the DSM?
It is a somatic disorder in which the individual is excessively fearful of contracting a serious illness or of dying; previously referred to as hypochondria.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
It is the perspective that that depression can have other sources besides the loss of a loved one.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
In psychoanalysis, a patient’s unwillingness to describe freely some aspects of his or her life
What is resistance?
Drugs that have the effect of altering mood and behavior by changing neuronal functioning
What are psychoactive drugs?
It represents an excess or distortion of normal behavior of schizophrenia; may include hallucinations, delusions, and excessive verbal behavior
What are positive symptoms?
It is a psychiatric disorder characterized by extreme mood swings from immobilizing depression to euphoria and frantic activity; previously referred to as manic-depressive disorder
What is Bipolar Disorder?
It is the hypothesis that suggests that schizophrenia is caused either by abnormally high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine or by above-normal activity to this neurotransmitter due to an increased number of receptors for dopamine.
What is the Dopamine Hypothesis?
Cognitive therapy aimed at restructuring irrational thinking patterns such as the tendency to use negative self-labels
What is Cognitive Restructuring Therapy?
Drugs used to treat major depressive disorder; include the tricyclics, MAOIs, SNRIs, and SSRIs
What are antidepressant drugs?
It represents diminished or absent behavior of schizophrenia; may include flattened emotions, diminished social behavior, apathy, anhedonia, and catatonic motor behavior
What are negative symptoms?
It is a personality disorder characterized by disregard for rights of others, lack of remorse or guilt for antisocial acts, irresponsibility in job or marital roles, failure to learn from experience, and a profound poverty of deep and lasting emotions
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
It is the first formal biochemical theory of mood disorders; proposes that depression is related to reduction in activity of the monoamine neurotransmitters norepinephrine and/or serotonin in specific regions of the brain.
What is the Monoamine theory?
Behavior modification techniques that attempt to influence behavior by manipulating reinforcers
What are Operant Conditioning Therapies?
A method of inducing seizures using strong magnetic fields as opposed to electrical current; used to treat depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia
What is Magnetic Seizure Therapy?
It is an exaggerated and rigidly held belief that has little or no basis in fact
What is a delusion?
It is a condition of separation in personality, or multiple personality, not attributable to disease or brain injury; previously called multiple personality disorder
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
According to the Psychoanalytic perspective, these symptoms demonstrate a return to the infantile since the individual is undergoing a massive regression to the oral stage.
What are the regressive symptoms?
Behavior therapy using a Pavlovian conditioning technique that pairs the slow, systematic exposure to anxiety-inducing situations with relaxation training
What is Systematic Desensitization?
Drugs used to reduce symptoms of anxiety and promote sleep; sometimes called minor tranquilizers
What are anxiolytic drugs?